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Welcome Back!
The cinema offers an experience unlike any other. Though today we have other ways to deliver and consume moving images, nothing can replace watching a film in the theater.
Virtual Dryden Theatre
With the Dryden Theatre Virtual Cinema, we are bringing you titles that we might have screened as Rochester Premieres at the Dryden. Each rental that you purchase through our links provides much-needed support to our nonprofit museum and theater.
Special Displays
POSTPONED—15 Years of Draft: A Retrospective of the RIT Student-Run Publication
April 4–19, 2020
The George Eastman Museum will host 15 Years of Draft: A Retrospective of the RIT Student-Run Publication.
CANCELED—Eastman Entertains: At the Movies
Tuesday, May 5–Sunday, May 24, 2020, All Day
Eastman Entertains: At the Movies, an array of beautiful table settings, creatively themed tabletops, and lush floral arrangements, returns to the George Eastman Museum.
Upcoming Exhibitions
James Welling: Choreograph
July 11, 2020–January 24, 2021
“By choosing to use ‘choreograph,’ drawing with space, as a noun, I am noting its similarity to ‘photograph,’ drawing with light.” — James Welling
History of Photography
July 14–October 18, 2020
Commemorating the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment’s ratification, which granted American women the right to vote, this installation examines how photography has portrayed, and fundamentally shaped, perceptions of women and feminist movements since the mid-1800s.
Gathering Clouds: Photographs from the Nineteenth Century and Today
July 11, 2020–January 3, 2021
From photography’s beginnings, clouds had been central to aesthetic and technological debates in photographic circles. Moreover, they featured in discussions about the nature of the medium itself.